milliard, fireside chats, tide-pool, purchase mission /purchasing mission

FDR shortly after giving one of his famous fireside chats

purchase mission /purchasing mission

China purchase mission spends $1.45 bln in Taiwan


tide-pool
n.
A pool of water remaining after a tide has retreated. Also called tide pool.

tíde pòol[tíde pòol]

((米))潮だまり：引き潮で岩礁などにできた水たまり（((英))rock pool）.

milliard

(mĭl'yərd, -yärd', mĭl'ē-ärd') 
n. Chiefly British
The cardinal number equal to 10⁹.

[French, from Old French milliart, from milion, million. See million.]

[名]((英))10億. ▼((米・カナダ))ではbillionという.



The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio speeches given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.